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[{"user_id": 4491, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1300050244.7435091, "message": "I work on newsblur.com and it currently requires 6 VPS on Linode. I want to switch to dedicated servers, but I don't want to buy hardware. There's a bunch of managed server hosting companies out there, each charging around $150/month for 4-8GB of memory. Thoughts on the best ones?", "group_id": 95, "id": 343508}, {"user_id": 4491, "stars": [{"date_created": 1303911168.862396, "user_id": 8391}, {"date_created": 1304065587.9932101, "user_id": 24554}], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1300050271.2091961, "message": "Pinboard.in uses DigitalOne (http://www.digitalone.com/) which at $160/month for 8GB is reasonable. But are there other options? Is everybody just on VPS? What about raw speed?", "group_id": 95, "id": 343511}, {"user_id": 21139, "stars": [{"date_created": 1303832304.732173, "user_id": 11381}], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1300051975.916307, "message": "Depends what you're after really.  If you're after reliablity for cheap I'd stick with Linode - they're able to provide stuff like RAID and redundant power supplies at much cheaper cost compared to dedicated servers.  Go dedicated however if you're after performance, to drop a few names: Softlayer, Server Beach, Voxel, Hetzner, OVH (probably roughly in reliability/cost order)", "group_id": 95, "id": 343695}, {"user_id": 1208, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1300052614.3225541, "message": "it's 100\u20ac monthly for 24gb of RAM. But then the servers are not US based I believe.", "group_id": 95, "id": 343740}, {"user_id": 4491, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1300053348.453187, "message": "These are all great options. I was trying to avoid hosting providers that felt spammy and SEO'ed.", "group_id": 95, "id": 343788}, {"user_id": 671, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1300051215.320787, "message": "I'm using http://www.reliablehostingservices.net/dedicated.php for most of my projects.  Some of my clients use linode (at my recommendation) - nothing wrong with them, but I've felt I get better value for money at a dedicated server provider.", "group_id": 95, "id": 343653}, {"user_id": 1208, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1300052584.9801979, "message": "I've heard good things about http://www.online.net/serveur-dedie/comparatif-offres-serveur-dedie.xhtml", "group_id": 95, "id": 343738}, {"user_id": 4491, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1300053746.943419, "message": "After checking the pricing on everything mentioned above, Reliable Hosting Services and DigitalOne are the least expensive and provide the best value in terms of RAM. I can't speak to reliability, since that should be handled through failover anyway, but it looks like those two are final candidates for me.", "group_id": 95, "id": 343810}, {"user_id": 11373, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1300083043.907582, "message": "anybody here using ecatel?", "group_id": 95, "id": 345291}, {"user_id": 9207, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1300259159.313719, "message": "Based on the info here (and the pinboard blog post) I checked with both digital one and reliable hosting services. They were both very responsive. I'm leaning in favor of the latter because they also offer VPSs. This makes it easy to set up an Nginx reverse proxy, for example, for cheap load balancing at $10/mo, or an email server.", "group_id": 95, "id": 363429}, {"user_id": 31148, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1303820540.923825, "message": "I'm not sure about them. I gave it a go signing up with DigitalOne and not only did I wait 4 instead of 1 hour to get my server, it actually took me calling them to get it done (no reply to emails except automated ones). And support guy never even apologise for the delay.", "group_id": 95, "id": 813029}, {"user_id": 31177, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1303829704.0368631, "message": "I have a dedicated server from Rackspace. It is not the cheapest, you can get far cheaper servers, but in my opinion (and experience) it is the best.", "group_id": 95, "id": 815260}, {"user_id": 674, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1303830254.2600279, "message": "Bluebox.net - hands down the best guys I have worked with", "group_id": 95, "id": 815365}, {"user_id": 30768, "stars": [{"date_created": 1303842192.0969801, "user_id": 1}], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1303841641.0535791, "message": "I work at Rackspace and I recommend Rackspace if you want managed, as we do that better than anyone else", "group_id": 95, "id": 817287}, {"user_id": 19885, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1303850760.5901561, "message": "I am using iweb (best value for money)", "group_id": 95, "id": 818690}, {"user_id": 30346, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1303850871.9404359, "message": "www.slicehost.com ... if you are looking for barebones cheap web hosting that gets the job done, i would vote www.asmallorange.com", "group_id": 95, "id": 818701}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1303858559.6388519, "message": "http://zerigo.net/ (small and obsessed with quality) and RackSpace (large and very flexible) are my favorites.", "group_id": 95, "id": 819785}, {"user_id": 22095, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1303859323.412009, "message": "rackspace is too expensive, check out softlayer.", "group_id": 95, "id": 819868}, {"user_id": 30768, "stars": [{"date_created": 1303911218.357244, "user_id": 8391}], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1303872656.0546861, "message": "slicehost is owned by rackspace by the way", "group_id": 95, "id": 821053}, {"user_id": 31058, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1303915802.5867021, "message": "softlayer is not managed. Try rackspace cloudsites.", "group_id": 95, "id": 826718}, {"user_id": 31293, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1303925753.4503341, "message": "I work in the hosting industry and there's really a lot of choices and the problems you really need to look at are - reliability, privacy policy, locality, cost. I'd definately stay away from the overseas providers, and the \"el cheapo\" providers are more often than not pretty bad. Rackspace/Softlayer are big quality names, but you can get better deals on the same gear from other players.", "group_id": 95, "id": 828801}, {"user_id": 27202, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1304035078.382021, "message": "amazone EC2!", "group_id": 95, "id": 848681}, {"user_id": 31119, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1304070439.070888, "message": "Hetzner seems to provide a great ratio quality/price, check their EQ offers", "group_id": 95, "id": 854168}, {"user_id": 1917, "stars": [{"date_created": 1304360855.4934039, "user_id": 22109}], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1304084937.095892, "message": "*webfaction", "group_id": 95, "id": 856406}, {"user_id": 1917, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1304084933.6408949, "message": "I really like wefaction", "group_id": 95, "id": 856405}, {"user_id": 27815, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1304178739.4417391, "message": "http://steadfast.net I used them during 2007-08 (now i use rackspace cloud) but they're support was superb! At the time their per gb bandwidth billing was priced really well. I'm not sure if they've adjusted the price or not, it use to be 0.08/gb and you could negotiate it down to 0.05/gb with a commitment.", "group_id": 95, "id": 868794}, {"user_id": 3883, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12877, "date_created": 1304181275.602788, "message": "slicehost is great pricing and reliable. but they don't have an SLA defined. So if you have mission critical stuff and cannot afford even a small downtime go to rackspace. They bleed reliability", "group_id": 95, "id": 869259}]